Iona Bain

Iona Bain is the UK's go-to voice on millennial money, having founded the pioneering Young Money Blog in 2011. She is a regular presence on TV and radio, with recent appearances including Question Time and Newsnight, and she is now Radio 1's Money Hacker in residence, broadcasting her advice to young people across the UK every month. She also co-presented the BBC Radio 4 series The Austerity Audit with Paul Johnson from the IFS in 2020. She is a regulator contributor to the Financial Times and other leading media outlets, and she was shortlisted for the prestigious Georgina Henry Prize at the UK Press Awards in 2020. She published her first book, Spare Change, in 2016, and her second book is "OWN IT! How our generation can invest our way to a better future". Published by Harriman House, it will be out on March 16.